I really want to use libGDX for my next project. I'm not even sure what it's gonna be yet, but just fiddling around with libGDX I must say the output is rather large.

Just a blank, white screen that's not doing anything. I have to distribute all the GDX and lwjgl-backend stuff and natives with it, it comes around to ~5 MB. A little less if I delete some of the not needed natives (linux ).

Anyway, do you guys think it's okay to have a, let's say, really cheap pacman clone that has ~20 kb of graphics have a download of about 5-10 MB? It just makes me a little sad but I guess everything <100 MB is okay nowadays?

We make just enough to survive. Admittedly some of Puppygames subsist on minimum wage (very, very little) until they've directly created some wealth but that's life.

Make no mistake, games development is not only incredibly hard but also incredibly risky. Very few games developers "in the wild" make enough money to do it sustainably. We're only at the very start - we've got plenty of opportunity to f**k it up and go bust in just the next 6 months.

50%? That seems kinda BS to me. Is there a max cap on how much they can take from you where you are from? Here in America we seem to argue constantly on who pays what but all I want is a max cap on what they can take. I think that 10-30% of income should be where a cap is depending on how much you make but I am kind of a money grubbing capitalist.

Say puppy games sold most of their games for 5$. That would be 7890*5 which is 39450$. Then the man needs to skim his 30% share. 27615$ to split between 3-5 people? Lets say 3, 9205$ in 2 weeks. Not bad but there will be times when it is next to nothing. So it is rather volatile.

Huh after a little bit of googlfuing seems like US has extremely high tax rate for corporations compared to even the countries that tax the most but for personal it is considerably less then the same high tax countries. Guess it is a a perspective thing. Companies should pay more then people or people should pay more then companies.

Did some more googling and it seems that many economic articles suggest low tax rates for corporations as that normally results in a stronger economy. Looks like America is becoming a nation of consumers and not producers...well we have kinda been that way for a while now.

I also see that some of the best games come from Europe. Why is that? Crysis I believe is German. Even if the game play sucks graphics are great.

Anyway: current perceived wisdom on taxation is that zero corporation tax is what is needed to make taxation simpler and fairer, and all tax is instead invididual tax.

That Steam net us about $21,000, which is about £13,000 when converted into GBP. We save 20% of that against tax (the exact figure is always a mystery but that seems to be a pretty reasonable approximation), so that leaves us with £10,400; however that doesn't account for any other operating expenses like accountancy, server rental, advertising, etc. which actually are accounted for out of the £13,000 figure.

I also see that some of the best games come from Europe. Why is that? Crysis I believe is German. Even if the game play sucks graphics are great.

Really ? I think Europe doesn't produce very much at all. Its mostly USA and Japan... and Canada.(I include cases where US companies outsource, because its still coming the the US, at large)Crysis is definitely the game with the highest budget in Germany, but thats also easily so because Germany has virtually no other big budget games.Italy ? mmmh not so muchSpain: nopeGreece: NahGermany: Crysis, thats it.France: Yeah well some, I think Ubisoft is more Canada.UK & Scandinavia: Fair amount of games.Then we have some Russian, Czech, Ukraine and near est games... not many though.

Without knowing the numbers, if you had a diagram of the amount of games and money grossed because of them, Europe would be easily third, I'm sure. And thats even considering the fact that Japan has problems selling games to the west, but their own game consumers are quite dedicated...

Taxes take a chunk out of your monthly gain, but without them, your government couldn't afford to invest in health care, roads, pensions, and a whole lot of other services and infrastructure that you use. Without taxes, you would have to pay a lot of money for various insurances, even more than you already do. I consider taxes the least evil alternative there is.

The USA has high corporate rates, but so many loopholes that the largest companies pay zero tax. So it's basically the little guys who can't afford to incorporate offshore shell companies who get shafted.

Taxes take a chunk out of your monthly gain, but without them, your government couldn't afford to invest in health care, roads, pensions, and a whole lot of other services and infrastructure that you use. Without taxes, you would have to pay a lot of money for various insurances, even more than you already do. I consider taxes the least evil alternative there is.

I used to believe that, but more and more I think my wage is cut in half (France, I confirm) not for the good of the community, but to re-fill the banks so they can invest like crazy and make even bigger profits while we pay their debts.

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